Technical Functions: On the Use and Design of Artefacts - Softcover
Buch 3 von 42: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Use, plans and designing
2.1 Artefacts and actions
2.2 Use plans
2.3 Planning in use
2.4 Designing plans
2.6 Standards for use plans
2.7 Evaluating artefact use and design
Chapter 3 Function theories
3.1 Function theories for technical artefacts
3.2 The intentional function theory
3.3 Cummins.causal-role theory of functions
3.4 The evolutionist function theory
3.5 Combining the basic theories
4.1 A use-plan approach towards functions
4.2 Function ascriptions
4.3 Assessing the function ascriptions
4.4 Functional roles
Chapter 5 Malfunctioning
5.1 The phenomenon of artefact malfunctioning
5.2 Having capacities versus exercising them
5.3 Artefact normativity
Chapter 6 Engineering, science and biology
6.2 Engineering
6.3 Physics and chemistry
6.4 Biology
6.5 A biological and generalised ICE-theory
Chapter 7 The nature of artefacts
7.1 Functions as conceptual drawbridges
7.2 Against function essentialism
7.3 Plan relativism
7.4 Useful and man-made materials
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